Plaintiffs who have filed Ethicon vaginal mesh lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have now slapped the company with a motion for sanctions involving thousands of missing key documents. Plaintiffs involved in the motion allege Ethicon destroyed or lost those documents that were to be a... Read More

A negligent misrepresentation claim against CL Medical Inc., the maker of the I-STOP pelvic sling device, has been dismissed by a federal judge in Kentucky. In a decision dated December 13, Judge Danny C. Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of... Read More

With at least 22 pending Neomedic sling lawsuits pending in eight different United States district courts, plaintiffs are calling for the creation of a new multidistrict litigation (MDL). Transvaginal mesh lawyers for the plaintiffs have moved to have the pending Neomedic lawsuits consolidated before U.S.... Read More

Attorneys for women suing Ethicon over injuries allegedly caused by transvaginal mesh, a treatment for female urinary incontinence, filed a motion earlier this month arguing that Ethicon intentionally lost or damaged evidence important to the transvaginal mesh lawyers’ case. Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary,... Read More

The last of the Bard bellwether transvaginal mesh trials will began on December 3 in West Virginia federal court.  The Bard Avaulta mesh lawsuit was originally scheduled to be tried in November, but the judge on the case issued a notice postponing it for a month.  The... Read More

Twenty-one Neomedic mesh lawsuits may be on their way to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia for coordinated and/or consolidated pretrial proceedings. Plaintiffs’ attorneys have asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to make the transfer. The Panel determines... Read More

On October 18, 2013, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, a U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of West Virginia, upheld the jury verdict awarded to a woman who had filed a transvaginal mesh lawsuit against C.R. Bard. The transvaginal mesh lawsuit award included $250,000 in... Read More

As reported by Harris Martin, an appeals court in Massachusetts has reversed the dismissal of a pelvic mesh lawsuit against Boston Scientific and American Medical Systems (AMS), after finding the case adequately claims injuries resulting from the implants. The court order handed down on October... Read More